mapuche
[maˈput͡ʃe]
The verdict
“mapuche” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,409. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,409
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne a una etnia nativa del sur de Sudamérica que ocupaba parte del actual territorio chileno en la época de la conquista, de organización tribal, avanzada agricultura e indust...
Corpus desk
Index ES-mapuche · mapuche · Spanish
mapuche · rank #8,409 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,409
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH logrando
Nearest frequency peer: logrando (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “mapuche”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- little
little
91,596 corpus weight
- logrando
logrando
91,593 corpus weight
- mapuche
mapuche
91,592 corpus weight
- Mediano
Mediano
91,591 corpus weight
- mercancía
mercancía
91,590 corpus weight
- Michel
Michel
91,589 corpus weight
What this shows “mapuche” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mapuche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [maˈput͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “mapuche”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mapuche (IPA [maˈput͡ʃe]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,409 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Que pertenece o concierne a una etnia nativa del sur de Sudamérica que ocupaba parte del actual territorio chileno en la época de la conquista, de organización tribal, avanzada agricultura e indust...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mapuche, with forms such as "ampuche", "mapcuhe", and "mappuche". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "marche", "mapuches", "mapache", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is mapuche, spelled M-A-P-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne a una etnia nativa del sur de Sudamérica que ocupaba parte del actual territorio chileno en la época de la conquista, de organización tribal, avanzada agricultura e industria textil, y disposición belicosa que los llevó a resistir la ocupación inca y luego colonial durante siglos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mapuche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y en el transcurso de la discusión política decidimos que me fuera a vivir a la casa de un cacique mapuche, una cabaña enclavada al pie mismo de la selva.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ampuche
- mapcuhe
- mappuche
- mapucche
- mapuceh
- mapuchhe
- mapuhce
- maupche
- mmapuche
- mpauche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mapuche - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).